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LEWISTON—The Buffalo and Erie County Greenway Fund Standing Committee is scheduled to meet on Tuesday, Oct. 29, at 4p.m. to announce the next cycle of grant funding and other grant-related topics. The committee has approved 32 projects to date, totaling more than $11 million, toward the establishment of the Niagara River Greenway in Erie County.

Agenda items for review at the committee’s Oct. 29 meeting will include:

Science Museum Grant

Grant Management Agreement.

Setting the schedule for the next round of projects

The Buffalo and Erie County Greenway Fund Standing Committee is composed of one representative from Erie County, The City of Buffalo, Buffalo Olmsted Parks Conservancy and the New York Power Authority (NYPA).

The Buffalo and Erie County Standing Committee receives funds from NYPA, as part of an agreement related to the 50-year federal license received by NYPA for the Niagara Hydroelectric Power Plant in 2007. During the term of the license, the Buffalo and Erie County Standing Committee will receive $2 million a year.

About NYPA:

■ The New York Power Authority has been designated as the lead entity via Executive Order 88 by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo to form a central management and implementation plan to carry out his Build Smart NY plan to reduce energy use by state facilities by 20 percent by 2020. ■ NYPA uses no tax money or state credit. It finances its operations through the sale of bonds and revenues earned in large part through sales of electricity.■ NYPA is the nation's largest state public power organization, through the operation of its 16 generating facilities in various parts of New York State, participation in a unique public/private partnership to contract for power from a clean generating plant in Queens, and its operation of more than 1,400 circuit-miles of transmission lines. ■ More than 70 percent of the electricity NYPA produces is clean renewable hydropower. Its lower-cost power production and electricity purchases support hundreds of thousands of jobs throughout the state.■ For more information visit www.nypa.gov and follow us on Twitter @NYPAenergy, Facebook, Instagram, Wordpress, and LinkedIn.